Five locations across the country will give fans their first opportunity to shop the brand-new toys from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Limited stock available. Purchase limits apply on select product. While quantities last.

This one should be worth backing because of who's behind it. It chronicles the original journey to Tunisia to find the Tatooine filming locations. Today, with Star Wars tourism a thing, an internet search can now yield everything down to GPS coordinates for film locations, but back in 1995 not even Lucasfilm knew exactly where to look for them, let alone find them. An individual came along and put his archaeological skills to the test to see if anything remained from decades past. He found them all. Shortly after that Lucasfilm contacted him and eventually hired him.

For anyone that's followed the DK Incredible Cross Sections books and Visual Dictionaries, you'll notice that especially the very first ones were incredibly detailed and well written. That's because of their details-oriented author, David West Reynolds. He's the main guy behind this kickstarter and the rewards packages look like they maintain that impressive informative/visual appealing approach that made the cross sections and visual dictionary books so awesome.

There's even one package that includes a sample of Tatooine sand - check it out!

I found some chocolate eggs with Star Wars "toys" inside at the local co-op gas station. They're not kinder eggs though, they're by a company out of Italy called Zaini.http://www.zainispa.it/STARWARS/So far I've only gotten 2 erasers and from that link it looks like there's 36 different toys/figures to collect. Kinder's toys were way better and even those weren't too amazing, so piecing together a full set of these will be a task I'll leave to someone else! Thought I'd report it anyways though, especially since this, like kinder eggs, can't be sold in the USA.

They have the white boxed stormtrooper set at $15 and the death trooper 3 pack at $20.I haven't seen the xwing pilot or the death trooper 4 pack set in Canada yet. Had to get those from Walgreens across the border. If you want them, pick them up when you see them because these kinds of gift sets typically show up at a store once or twice in low numbers before Christmas and then they're gone.

If you do a search for star wars at the Bay's online storehttp://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/thebay...you'll find underwear, luggage, flipflops and now the interesting part: a whole bunch of Royal Selangor pewter items. The pewter stuff is fairly expensive but it's probably more something that someone would buy a star wars fan for an anniversary or grad gift for someone who "has everything" rather than a line where you would try to collect them all. Checking the Royal Selangor website https://www.royalselangor.com/landing/star-wars-collection#breadcrumb...the Bay's prices are less than the Royal Selangor website and they're in Cdn dollars so there's that. Seems like the bay isn't trying to compete with walmart and toysrus, they're going for niche items that those stores wouldn't carry. Good on them, gives us some variety.

Back in mid April there was a tip posted on rebelscum about a star wars lego set that would only be available on April 30 and only to lego VIP members at an invitation only event at brick and mortar lego stores. Escape the Space Slug was the set, it looked cool. When it comes to lego I only collect star wars and I only collect the select few that I like, it ends up being about a $500 a year or less commitment. Since I'm in the VIP program I called the store to see if I could get an invite. It turns out they had already given out all invites to a local adult fans of lego group so the best I could do was get on the wait list. Long story short, someone cancelled, I got in, brought my son, and together we rang up enough of a bill to get the space Slug set. On to my point. The lego fan group was noticed because they'd reached out and were organized. Does anyone else at Snowtroopers.ca see some value in us getting organized so that if lego, Hasbro, disney/LFL,etc want to get in touch with the Canadian star wars fan base, they have us as a group on their contacts list? I'm thinking it would start with some basic correspondence with the kind of organizations I listed above that explains who we are and can list members by province. We basically make ourselves known and let them know we're willing to be of service to them since it's our hobby. If it helps them target their marketing better and figure out their fan base better, bonus for them. If it gives us a clearer, unified voice with the organizations we patronize all the time with our hobby, bonus for us. What does everyone think?

Looks like Disney is terminating any future releases or updates to their Infinity video game. Too bad, me and my 5 year old son really enjoy playing it together and building levels. We'll continue to play but I imagine at some point it will stagnate if new characters and sets are no longer being introduced.